Cape Gooseberries

[Elaine]

Morning everyone. My three Cape Gooseberry plants are doing really well in the greenhouse and are festooned with fruits, so it looks like a bumper crop. So....apart from eating them until they come out of our ears, has anyone out there got any recipes or suggestions please? Can you make jam with them? There is no mention of them in my "jam making Bible" and I have no idea whether they would need pectin and/or acid.

I thought I would ask you good folks before I start trawling the Internet as I prefer books (still) and personal recommendations any day!
Cheers!

[Nature's Babe]

Elaine if kept in a cool frost proof place cape gooseberries will keep in their paper cases for 3 - 4 weeks. You can make jam with them, and this link says they have a high pectin content.
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/cape-gooseberry.html
They are ripe when their cases go dry and papery, and they start dropping off the plants, good keeping quality and useful easy to grow plant.